Late in the evening, in the early summer of 2017, the EweChannel user 'silicapacket99' uploads a video that's a bit different from her usual content of several-hour-long, no-commentary let's-plays of various city-builder, factory manager, and colony-sim games.

The title: |Now It's Our Problem Podcast - Episode 1: The Fall Formal Inferno|.
The thumbnail: a .png of a horse that's been 'shopped directly into a burning building, both of which were probably taken from Giggle Images; all overlaid with the video title in bold text, plus the subtitle, |Feat. Sunset Shimmer|.

Might as well check it out. Her previous attempt to use her channel for something other than silent game footage kinda stalled out when the workload got to being more than she could balance with her education, but it was definitely interesting while it lasted.

Three Shadowbolts on the eve of graduation start a podcast about magical disasters – a conceptual crossover with Well There's Your Problem, a podcast about engineering disasters.

Rated Teen for vulgar discussions between young adults about motherfucking, pony profanity, and Pedestrian politics and religion.

With her parents gone for the week, Twilight decides to invite her friends from Crystal Prep to her house in an attempt to get to know them better. It goes surprisingly better than she hoped until Lemon Zest brings out a card game she wanted to play with them all. What the heck is cards against humanity?

All tags are for the card contents.

The world is in danger, again. Magic is to blame again. It's up to a teenage girl massively out of her depth to fix everything, again. It really feels like it's starting to become a worrying pattern, although Sugarcoat is far too preoccupied with far more pressing matters to worry about that. She'll have to make a decision, and getting there will involve learning how magic works, a lot of details she could have done without, and that if you scream into the void hard enough eventually the void screams back.

An entry in Imposing Sovereigns IV, under the prompt Sugarcoat / Unorthodoxy, and the 100th Sugarcoat story on the site.

Inspired by Oversaturation, Mirror Match Inc., and Machina Cor Armageddon.

Pre-read by Petrichord.

Sour Sweet never really cared about anyone except herself and beating Canterlot High of course. After the Friendship Games, she slowly but surely turned herself around and even made a few friends. When she prepares to leave lunch for her next class, she rescues a fellow classmate from a crime, leading to Sour to doubt everything about herself.

Twilight is invited to an airsoft event at an abandoned school by some of her old Crystal Prep classmates one late night. The night, however, does not go quite as planned, as several surprises await Twilight on this chaotic night.

When Moondancer transfers to a new school, Crystal Prep, she is not sure if she will be able to fit in. She makes 2 new friends, and everything seems to be going well. However, as time goes on, Moondancer questions if they really like her or if they simply need something from her.

The Friendship Games are still fresh on everyone's minds - likely due to the near destruction of the universe and all such?

Since then, months have passed and things have certainly changed. Twilight Sparkle, for her part, has not only changed schools but practically become a whole different person.

But let's face it: we really messed up back then, didn't we?

Written for Bean's Writing Group as part of the bi-weekly prompt.

Prompt: A Shared Meal
Bonus Prompt: main character is powerless in the scenario

Perception is a fascinating thing. Sometimes, how someone views themselves and how others view someone don't coincide. In fact, it can be absolutely baffling how different the two are.

The girl who seems to have everything together? She might be a wreck beneath the surface.

The girl who seems so inattentive? Perhaps she genuinely doesn't see the attempts to reach her.

The girl who seems so moody? Maybe there's more to it than what people see.

But of course, that's the thing about perception. Sometimes, it just doesn't line up. And few know that better than the girls at Crystal Prep Academy.

(This is a collection of little vignettes I'll be publishing, effectively going into my headcanons for the Shadowbolts. I hope you enjoy it.)

Lemon Zest is pretty lucky for a pony who just got fried to death, as she scores the one in ten thousand chance a pony has at becoming a ghost. Knowing nothing about how to survive the afterlife, Zest seeks out the guidance of a far older and more experienced specter named Sugarcoat. Fittingly finding herself haunting an abandoned schoolhouse, Lemon Zest will need to learn the basics if she ever wants to be a pro-ghost.
Of course, tuition isn't entirely free, and Sugarcoat will expect Lemon Zest to help her recruit more ghosts to the lonely Shadowbolt Academy.

More stories set in this AU can be found here.